Despite what looks like a daily increase in the number of successful attempts to maliciously disrupt legitimate online activities, end consumers look more exposed, today, and for the near term future than ever before. Two factors contribute to this assessment: Hacker tools now include a much rich...

ISVs with popular online computing offers (notably Apple, Google, and Microsoft) have each adopted and endorsed an "App" model. This writer has a lot of conceptual familiarity with Microsoft's version of this approach. Microsoft has positioned its Office 2013 App Model as a better approach to onl...

Anyone following media reports on the security consciousness of consumers of online apps, or the disinterest they exhibit in developing one, will likely be familiar with what this writer considers a long term trend to look for "something easy" to implement, even at the expense of any real promise...

The Mashable blog has published a few articles on the online security flaws plaguing Microsoft's Windows XP O/S. In Internet Explorer Gets Its Security Patch, and So Does Windows XP, Lance Ulanoff announced Microsoft's intention to issue patches on Thursday, May 1, 2014, to fix the problems. Nume...